ivory black

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   a black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil

   Broaderpigment

Questions about ivory black

What does ivory black mean?

ivory black means "a black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil".

Is ivory black a common word?

ivory black is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.